One Week to Go for “Zero Nuclear” in Japan

After the Fukushima disaster in March last year, 53 out of 54 reactors have stopped one by one for the safety check and haven’t restarted yet.  The last one, Tomari nuclear plant in Hokkaido is also going to stop at midnight on May 5.  It’s going to be a historical moment of “Zero Nuclear” for Japan since the first one started to work 45 years ago.  

As it’s getting close to it, the group of nuclear power including the Japanese government have been making effort of restarting the others, especially Oi nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture.  They say it won’t be enough electricity otherwise.  We heard it last year when there was enough electricity.  They say they will decide on political reasons.  However they can’t prove the nuclear in Japan safe scientifically because the investigation of Fukushima disaster hasn’t finished.  They don’t know what happened and how the explosion occurred after the big earthquake and tsunami. Therefore it’s impossible to bring changes to make it safe.   The citizens in Fukushima Prefecture were trapped and forced to live with a high radiation.  It’s now very clear that the government doesn’t save the citizens even the vulnerable children, instead they save Tepco company.   

With possible big earthquake in the near future, if the government forces to restart the reactor, it’s for sure it's not for the nation but for who and what?   So far the local government hasn’t given the go sign yet.  Let’s hope they won’t.  And we don’t think IAEA should interfere with it if that’s true.  With ongoing radiation problems with the Fukushima plant, Japan won’t be able to survive another catastrophe.  All of the reactors are on the earthquake areas.  The land got even shakier since the disaster.  There were seven of magnitude 5 or more earthquakes occurred in the last 3 months in the east coast of Japan according to the official website: 

http://bousai.tenki.jp/bousai/earthquake/earthquake_center_ranking 

It’s obvious for the rest of the world that Japan should stop nuclear.  If the Japanese government hasn't learned the lesson, when would they?